Education Secretary: Textbooks Must Go Digital

For
over a decade, online textbooks have been a crucial part of Thinkwell's
approach to education. Our strong commitment to digital learning is
behind every one of our online textbooks, available in math, science,
and social science subjects for middle-schoolers, high-schoolers, and
college students.Recently, Education Secretary Arne Duncan described the transition from print to online textbooks as absolutely urgent. "Over
the next few years, textbooks should be obsolete," Duncan said. "The
world is changing. This has to be where we go as a country." The
education gap continues to widen between students in the U.S. and their
peers elsewhere. South Korea, which consistently betters the U.S. in
measures of educational outcomes, has embraced digital learning and
plans to go fully digital with its textbooks by 2015. Several
states in the U.S. have begun to make digitizing textbooks a priority.
Now that all 48 states and D.C. have adopted the Common Core standards
(uniform standards for reading and math), it will be easier for states
to collaborate in creating online content. This summer, a school
district in Huntsville, Alabama, became the first district nationally to
attempt to transition completely from print to online textbooks.Check out Thinkwell's latest online textbook (which also comes in print format), College Algebra.